German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the United States would remain one of Germany’s closest and most indispensable allies, regardless of who the current president is. Scholz stressed this in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. The chancellor said continues close cooperation and partnership is in the interest of both the…
China created 12.56 million new urban jobs in 2024, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on Tuesday. In 2024, China’s surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.1 per cent, 0.1 percentage points lower than the previous year. This is according to the ministry. “The employment situation remained generally stable,’’ said Lu Aihong,…
The second phase of the exchange of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian prisoners would take place this weekend. This is after which Palestinians has the opportunity to begin to return from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said on Tuesday. “The second…
A rebel spokesperson and provincial governor on Tuesday said the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels have seized the eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for the provincial capital Goma. The Tutsi-led M23 group has been waging a renewed insurgency in the Central African country’s east since 2022. Congo and the United Nations…
Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, Minister of Women Affairs, has urged African countries to strengthen policy frameworks and governance to protect children’s rights and end all harmful practices. Sulaiman-Ibrahim stated this at the Community Children’s Fund Launch Event with the theme, “Advancing Africa’s Agenda for Children 2040: Protecting StreetConnected Children in West Africa’’ at SOAS University of…
Australian police said it is carrying out an investigating after a childcare centre was torched on Tuesday, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic attacks across the country. The centre in Sydney, located near the Maroubra Synagogue, was destroyed in the blaze, New South Wales (NSW) police said. “Offensive graffiti was also located spray painted…
Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, said the organisation regretted the decision of the United States to withdraw from it. Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organisation (WHO). The statement read: “the World Health Organisation regrets the announcement that the United States…
South Korea’s suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday appeared for the first time at the Constitutional Court for his impeachment trial. Yoon asked that the court’s judges consider him favourably, saying he has always held a firm belief in liberal democracy, the Yonhap news agency reported. It was the first time in South Korea’s…
An Afghan national has been released from a U.S. prison in exchange for the release of American nationals, Afghanistan’s Taliban Government announced on Tuesday. Khan Mohammad was detained nearly two decades ago in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar and later sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. court. The Afghan Foreign Ministry said this in…
New U.S. President Donald Trump says God saved him from an assassin’s bullet to “make America great again.” Trump said this during his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States on Monday. “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. “But I felt then…
